A BREATH OF SALT AIR 

After the Show: A Studio Reset

Infinite Sky at the Edge  48 x 36 oil/canvas After the whirlwind of Where Light Meets Water, a beautiful and successful show that brought many people together around...
Infinite Sky at the Edge

  Join us for the reception if you are near Fairfield, Connecticut. It a beautiful show! Please mark your calendars to stop in for my next show, a benefit toward...

Waiting for the Blue Heron of Towd Point

This serene painting captures a quiet, reflective moment in a familiar landscape to me, a view from the bridge on Towd Point. The blue heron truly lives here, taking...
Blue Heron 36 x 48 oil/canvas by Casey Chalem Anderson

Blues Music and Seascapes: Finding Calm in Chaos

In these confusing and frustrating times, finding emotional balance can feel like a never-ending quest. For me art has always been a refuge—a way to feel deeply,...
Open Sky, Blue Water 36 x 48 oil/canvas

The Healing Power of Color in My Seascape Paintings

  Color is more than just an aesthetic choice—it has the power to influence emotions, ease anxiety, and enhance well-being. In my seascape paintings, I...
Twilight at the Point
Breath of Salt Air – Violet and Lavender – June 25, 2013

Breath of Salt Air – Violet and Lavender – June 25, 2013

I use a lot of lavender paint, a pale tint of violet that can slant toward blue.  The color is sometimes a light pinkish violet and can include a vast range of vibrant purples to blue tinged muted grays. I adore all the many flowers that come in shades of lavender....

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Breath of Salt Air – Temper of Water- June 17, 2013

Breath of Salt Air – Temper of Water- June 17, 2013

It is shocking how rapidly the temper of open water can change. Early this morning the entire bay was a glassy cerulean blue punctuated with soft aqua green strokes. Only a couple of hours later and the winds have radically changed direction. A dark teal, ultramarine...

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Breath of Salt Air – Scallop Pond – June 10, 2013

Breath of Salt Air – Scallop Pond – June 10, 2013

I’m out here on another adventure in plein air (outdoor) painting at Scallop Pond in Southampton.  Here is a broad expanse of magnificent salt water marshland that is property conserved by the Peconic Land Trust.  Far enough removed from the sounds of cars and trucks,...

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Breath of Salt Air – Saltspray Roses – June 3, 2013

Breath of Salt Air – Saltspray Roses – June 3, 2013

“Those that find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.” L.W. Gilbert Now that the weather is warmer, I’ve been able to get outside to paint.  When you are plein air painting the challenges can be enormous.  The weather...

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Your Mood and the Water

Your Mood and the Water

Your Mood and the Water I like to go down to the water, any water, when I’m feeling stressed.  So many of us do and it always seems to help. I’m so curious about why that should be. Can those drifting tides and ripples moving speedily along the water wash your cares...

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Breath of Salt Air – Listening to Water – May 20, 2013

Breath of Salt Air – Listening to Water – May 20, 2013

Listening to the Water Is the reverberating crash and boom of an ocean wave soothing to you? Some people would love to live by the ocean.  One friend remarked that she had “the best night’s sleep ever” by the sea. To some, that incessant thud is just annoying. Some...

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Breath of Salt Air – Great Wave -April 29, 2013

Breath of Salt Air – Great Wave -April 29, 2013

Does this wave look familiar? It is probably the most famous and extraordinary of all Japanese art, created as a woodblock print almost 200 years ago.  Today we see it everywhere, printed on T-shirts, calendars, coffee mugs. This image has power. The wave is a...

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Breath of Salt Air – Moon in the Daylight – April 22, 2013

Breath of Salt Air – Moon in the Daylight – April 22, 2013

Have you ever noticed the Moon out in the daytime? I always marveled at this since as a child I was under the impression that the moon comes out at night. Not entirely true. When you look at the Moon you are seeing the bright light of the Sun reflecting off it. Two...

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Breath of Salt Air – Long Beach Sketch-4/16/13

Breath of Salt Air – Long Beach Sketch-4/16/13

Sketching in pencil by the side of the beach takes me back in time.  I feel connected to the art of the past. After all, making marks on a surface is one of the most basic human expressions of communication. We have drawings in caves and on rocks dating back to...

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Breath of Salt Air-Blue Vapor-April 9, 2013

Breath of Salt Air-Blue Vapor-April 9, 2013

Sometimes there is a haze of blue humidity hanging over the bay.  It’s a soft light but also persistently bright all in the same instant.  Take a moment to watch it and it appears to shift right before your eyes. This morning there was a veil of cerulean haze...

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Breath of Salt Air April 2, 2013

Breath of Salt Air April 2, 2013

When you get down to the ocean you never quite know what to expect. Will it be peaceful and flat, or rough and churned up?  The sea with its changeable and unpredictable moods will confound you every time. It doesn't seem to matter what kind of temper the water is in....

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Breath of Salt Air, March 26, 2013

Breath of Salt Air, March 26, 2013

Living by the water all year round in New England has its challenges.  There is the flooding, the Nor'Easters, piercing wet weather and whipping winds.  But after a dismal unrelenting gray day, very often a mini miracle takes place. It happened just now. The sun drops...

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March 19, 2013

March 19, 2013

What is it that is so captivating about the sea? Right from that first glimpse of blue-green to the curling edge of iridescent white foam, you are transported, electrified, alive! And it doesn’t really matter what time of year it is (Although warm weather sounds good...

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